This is kind of a strange blog post for me. I have always had a pretty healthy relationship with food. I am a pescetarian (I eat fish but not meat, I’m going to talk about this more in another post), but this post is going to be more about what my mental attitude towards food has been and how it has changed. Growing up, I went to breakfast club in primary school and I used to have food from the…

I first watched America’s Next Top Model when I was about 9. It fascinated me. I was not a make-up girl at the time, but watching these girls getting dressed up and creating these quirky shapes was really interesting. I used to dress up to go out and strut along the upstairs landing like I was at the final runway. I told some people in school I used to do this and why I did it when I was year…

I’ve talked a lot about school on my blog and, more recently, my transition into the working world. It’s something that I have experience in and thought it would be helpful to share that. I was approached recently by a new start up called Nebula. Nebula is “an education start-up aimed at teenagers. Their e-learning course helps teenagers reach their potential after school by covering exam performance but also personal finance and economics”. This small description gripped me. When doing…

Dear Enter Shikari, I did not think I would be interested in your music. I remember sitting on the school bus while one of my friends scrolled through his music which was mainly “screamy” and I didn’t pay attention to anything he played because I wasn’t interested. I liked guitars and soft voices. Fast forward 2 years, and my music taste was similar. I knew what I liked. I thought I knew what I liked. You see, I was supposed…

When I was in school, all of my teachers bombarded me with information about university and which ones I should be applying to and why and what would make me happy and what I could do with my degree and all the rest of that spiel. There was article after article written by uni students telling me the reality of their situation; but uni just didn’t appeal to me. I knew I wanted to do an apprenticeship, but I didn’t…